GCN Circular 8060
Subject
GRB 080805: GROND detection of possible afterglow
Date
2008-08-05T08:42:10Z (16 years ago)
From
Jochen Greiner at MPI <jcg@mpe.mpg.de>
T. Kruehler, F. Schrey, J. Greiner, C. Clemens, A. Yoldas (all MPE
Garching),
A. Kupcu Yoldas (ESO) and G. Szokoly (Eoetvoes Univ., Budapest) report on
behalf of the GROND team:
GROND (Greiner et al. 2008, PASP 120, 405), mounted at the 2.2m ESO/MPI
telescope at La Silla Observatory (Chile), started observations of the
field of GRB 080805 (Pagani et al. 2008, GCN #8059) in g'r'i'z'JHK at
07:45 UT, 3.5 min after the burst. We detect an optical/NIR afterglow
candidate in the XRT error circle (Pagani et al. 2008, GCN #8059) in
griz at:
RA(J2000): 20h 56m 53.44
DEC(J2000): -62d 26' 39.8"
with uncertainties of 0.5".
We measure the following magnitudes, calibrated against USNO-B1 field stars:
g = 21.7 +- 0.2
r = 20.5 +- 0.1
i = 20.1 +- 0.1
z = 19.9 +- 0.1
No statement about fading can be made at the moment. If this is the
afterglow of GRB 080805, then its redshift is smaller than 3.5.